Justice is often elusive. Alfred Hitchcock understood this fact well. So, how do film critics today illuminate historically significant filmmakers while trying to balance the scales of social justice? What concessions are reasonable in retrospect? What adjustments necessary moving forward? Join our panel discussion as we consider Hitchcock's control, collaborations, and controversy in light of the #MeToo Movement. This pedagogical panel will dynamize our present social moment by (re)considering Hitchcock's work.

Elizabeth L. Bullock is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. For Elizabeth Bullock, movies are a “gateway drug” to a life of the mind. As an adjunct instructor, Beth teaches cinema, art history, and humanities courses at the City Colleges of Chicago and film studies at Dominican University. Her Hitchcock course surveys the oeuvre and philosophy of the director from Blackmail through Marnie. Her essay "Naughts and Crosses: Marital and Cinematic Gamesmanship in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith" appears in Hitchcock Annual, 2022.

Michelle Risacher is an MA student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California, with research interests in feminism, queer theory and the issues of temporality that inflect each. She has presented her scholarship at the undergraduate SCMS conference and the ACM Student Film Conference and Festival, where she was awarded first prize for her essay “Women’s Time: Female Subjectivity in Maya Deren’s Witch’s Cradle.” She earned her BA in Film and Visual Culture from Grinnell College.

Christina Lane is the bestselling, Edgar®-Award winning author of "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock." She is Professor of film studies in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Miami, where she teaches courses in film history, gender, and directors. Other publications include the books "Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break and Magnolia" as well as articles in "Cinema Journal," "Feminist Media Histories," the "Quarterly Review of Film and Television," "Cine-Files," and "The Journal of Popular Film and TV." She contributed essays on Alfred Hitchcock's collaborators Joan Harrison and Alma Reville to the volumes "Authorship and Film" (Routledge 2002) and "Hitchcock and Adaptation" (with Jo Botting, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014). She provides commentary for such outlets as the "Daily Mail," "CrimeReads" and "AirMail," and has been a featured guest speaker at the Film Forum, on NPR and on Turner Classic Movies.

Theresa L. Geller is the author of "The X-Files" (Wayne State UP, 2016) and editor of "Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism’s Indelible Mark" (Duke UP, 2022). She teaches film and television studies at San Francisco State University. Dr. Geller was recently a Scholar-in-Residence with the Beatrice Bain Research Group at UC Berkeley and a Mellon Fellow at Yale University. Before relocating to the Bay Area, Dr. Geller served as Associate Professor of Film Theory and History at Grinnell College. Her scholarship has appeared in "American Quarterly," "Camera Obscura," "Rhizomes," "The Velvet Light Trap," "Biography," and "Senses of Cinema." She has also contributed essays to volumes such as "The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory," "East Asian Cinemas," "Documenting the Visual Arts, Lady Gaga and Popular Music," "Gender After Lyotard," and "There She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond."

Evangeline Spachis is an M.A. scholar in Film Curation. As a freelance film programmer at Leeds International Film Festival, she specialises in programmes that promote queer readings and queer representation in horror. She has had a lifelong love of Hitchcock, referencing the lauded Hitchcock Geek in her undergraduate dissertation. She hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Elisabeth Karlin is a HitchCon Advisory Board member. Elisabeth Karlin is an award-winning playwright living in New York. Her plays include "The Night the Ocean Met the Bay" (Next Stage Press); "The Showman and the Spirit" (Winner, 2017 Stanley Drama Award); "Hotbed" (Epic Play Readings, Project Y Theatre; Reading, Jersey City Theatre Center) "Bodega Bay" (The Abingdon Theatre Company; Winner of the 2013 Jerry Kaufman Award in Playwriting; THE BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014 and THE BEST WOMEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014, Smith and Kraus) and many more. A dedicated film buff, Elisabeth has been a frequent contributor to the Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog, covering a wide range of themes inspired by The Master. An expanded version of her talk at HitchCon21 on "The Dynamic Heroines of Hitchcock" appears in the current volume of The Hitchcock Annual.